Drunken Texan turns back BA flight in mid-Atlantic

A British Airways jet had to turn back in the middle of the Atlantic after a rum-swigging Texan assaulted passengers and staff. Journalism student Jeffrey ‘Tanner’ Libby, 21, reached for a litre bottle of Bacardi after the flight hit turbulence shortly after leaving Heathrow on December 17 last year. Olu Phillips, prosecuting, told Isleworth Crown Court: ‘He was speaking increasingly loudly and swearing.’ Libby began to punch and kick the seat of a passenger in front of him which he…